The materials we need to make mooncake skin are:

200g cake flour, 160g maltose, 50g oil, 3g amaranth water, mung bean paste balls, egg yolk liquid

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The method is as follows:

1. How to make the cake crust: Heat the syrup in the microwave and melt it, then mix it with the amaranth water evenly.

2. Pour in 50g cooking oil and stir evenly again.

3. Sift in 200g of cake flour and mix gently.

4. Mix well and knead into a smooth dough, wrap it in a plastic bag and place it in the refrigerator to rest for 30 minutes.

5. How to make mooncakes: According to the size of the mold, the ratio of filling to dough is 6:4 for the convenience of novices.

6. Press the mooncake skin dough into a round piece and put a mung bean paste filling ball on it.

7. Gently push the mooncake skin dough upwards to tightly wrap the mung bean paste filling ball. Finally, seal the dough and gently roll it into a round shape.

8. Put some dry flour on your hands, roll it with a dough ball, dip it in a little dry flour, cover the mooncake ball with a mooncake mold, and gently press down the handle.

9. To remove the mold, just pick up the mooncake mold and gently press the handle, and the mooncake will come out.

10. After the oven is preheated, put the baking sheet containing the mooncake dough into the oven, bake at 220 for about 8-10 minutes, take out the baking sheet and let it sit for 5 minutes, brush with egg yolk liquid, and then put it in Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for about 8-10 minutes. After the mooncakes are completely cool, put them in a sealed bag and return the oil.

Food customs during the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Su Dongpo, a great poet of the Song Dynasty, praised moon cakes in a poem: "Small cakes are like chewing the moon, with crispy and sweet fillings in them." From this, we can see that moon cakes in the Song Dynasty were filled with butter and sugar. In the Yuan Dynasty, it is said that people took advantage of the opportunity to give mooncakes as gifts and put notes in the mooncakes, agreeing to act simultaneously on August 15th to kill and drive away the Mongolian "Tatars". By the Ming Dynasty, the custom of eating mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival became more common. According to "Miscellaneous Notes of Wanshu" written by Shen Bang of the Ming Dynasty, "the furniture made by the common people was made of moon cakes, ranging in size, and they were called moon cakes.

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